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Offline TomSea

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Batman shooting victim's family 'horrified' by Joker film's violence
    24 September 2019

Families of those killed while watching a Batman film in 2012 have written to Warner Bros with concerns about the new Joker film and urging the studio to join action against gun violence.

Twelve people died in a cinema showing The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado.

They included Jessica Ghawi, 24, whose mother Sandy Phillips told BBC News she was "horrified" by the Joker trailers.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49816205

I care little about the Hollywood movies or Batman; but there is quite a bit of coverage about this, so I am posting for the forum.

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Re: Batman shooting victim's family 'horrified' by Joker film's violence
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2019, 04:14:43 pm »
What the heck does the Joker movie have to do with something that happened seven years ago? This is a pathetic attention grab by these people. Yeah, sorry for your loss, but you really don't have to bring it up every time Hollywood releases a violence-strewn movie (which seems to be about every other week).
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Re: Batman shooting victim's family 'horrified' by Joker film's violence
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2019, 04:17:00 pm »
What the heck does the Joker movie have to do with something that happened seven years ago? This is a pathetic attention grab by these people. Yeah, sorry for your loss, but you really don't have to bring it up every time Hollywood releases a violence-strewn movie (which seems to be about every other week).



Or they could just not go see it. That speaks louder.